The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-09-08
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO.
SOM THINGS THAT ARE
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA
W bat las iiaprened in the Good Old
State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.


.partment an accurate record. in brief, of
the news from Murphy to Manteo. Send
Us postal card whenever anything of
pupllc interest tranSplreS In your neigh
borhood or section Of country. You Will
ald Us and give prominence to your see
ton. Send on the postal cards = EDITOR
The Weldon Fair will be held from
October Fad TO 4th.
The delivery of mail by carriers in
Charlotte commenced September lSt.
49,. Durham is to have National Bank
with 800, 900 capital. The bank viii open
October 1St.
1.-Two negroes in Warren county. \
gun. one handles carele>sly. Bang. Dead
negro. Didnl 60 TO do il. Didn't know
it was loaded.
The Greensboro North State has en-
tered on its third year. 1t is a large, neatly
printed paper and deserves we'll OF North
Carolina republicans.
-. The Western Hotel at Asheyille is
to be torn down and replaced by a hand
some modern structure. 1t is the property
of Hon. Thos. ID. Johnston.
Chatham leads the world The
Plttsboro Home says Mr.. Jas. Henderson
has beet 81 inches long, 49, inches IN
circumference, and weighs II pounds.
There are 125 new students at Trim
ity College and more are expected. The
$50, 000 endowment VIII grow and the
number of students will continually IN
crease.
...Dr. Il. W. Battle, at the Mt. Holly
encampmeut, IN his speech estimated that
the sum spent for fertilizers would amount
10 over onefifth of the money received for
the cotton Drop.
- ON the night Of August 31st-one
year since the earthquake -hock-a praise,
prayer and humiliation service Was held
IN 81. paui's Evangelical Lutheran church,
IN Wilmington.
To-day, Mr. J. :. Carr sent, at his
own expense, four colorel bows to the
kittrel Normal School. 1o-WIt: L. ".
Shaw, w y Ray, Jiles Whitsett and :.
Il. Moore Durham Recorder.
The Church Messenger. heretofore
published at Charlotte, has merged into
the Church and Home. Of jacksonville,
Florida. The EpiScopaIians have therefore
no church paper in North Carolina.
-. Mr.. John H. Ferree's new cotton
mill, Mr.. K. z. Dicks new residence and
the Improvements at Naomi will add i'm
menSeiy to Randolph's largest town, says
the ASHORE Courier.
49, The Wilmington Star publishes a
letter from Mr.. L. l.. Mann, of Hyde coun-
tY, to the effect that the recent gale of
wind has badly injured the crops-fuIly
one-third or Cne-half.
49, The Western North Carolina Rail
road Company is putting in about two
miles of side track at Hot Springs. At an
early day the Company purposes to make
that place the terminus of the road Ashe-
Vile Advance.
- Mr.. Thos. Higgins, a carpenter in
Asheville, fell from the roof OF Ballard
Bros. store IN Asheyile last week, dis
tance of 2S feet, and was killed. He had
been drinking heavily and his nervous sys
teni was deranged
....A Junius Daniel Camp of Confed-
crate Veterans has been formed at Little
ton. 1t is named in memory of the brave
Gen. Junius Daniel, of Halifax, who was
/ killed on the 18th of January, 1864, at
/ Spotsylyania, va.
John W. Kerr who had .'atumped'
/ his toe on Salisbury sidewalk and had
/ fallen down and injured his leg, sued the
! town for So, 000 damages at Rowan court g,
| but the town gained the case.-Statesvlle
Landmark.
I 1t seems To he fact as gathered
from all the farmers in this section and
Edgecombe, Pitt Martin and other coun-
ties that the cotton crop is cut off at least
one fourth from the effects of wet weather.
- Scotland Neck Democrat.
Hurrah for Concord. 1t is TO have
another cotton mill The leading stock
holders in The new mill that is to be built
are Messrs. Hoover x Love, J. p. Allison,
P. NJ. Morris, and Martin Boger The
company will be known as the Love Mills
/ COmpany.'
Mr.. W. NJ Barber reports raising
over 700 pounds of WatermelonS from four
vines on two hills. Five melons in his
patch aggregated a weight of over 20o
pounds and they grew in a space Of not
more than yard square. = WIlkeaboro
! Chronicle,
Mr.. +. p. Howell is the real editor
of the Atlanta Constitution. Mr.. Grad y
helps him, and owns a fourth. SO says
the Wilmington Star Mr.. Howell is 3
Haywood county man, and Mr. Grady i.
of North Carolina stock. = AshevillC
Citizen.
" York on the railroad from Winston
to Wilkesboro must, by the terms of the
contract with the Richmond and Danyillt
road, be begun by September 10th in order
to fall within the ninety days specified il
the contract. Interested parties viii ac
at once.
" The WarrentOn Gazette is fftcel
years old. Mr.. Footc deserves the supper
and gratitude of the people of Warren
With an intelligent zeal he has earnestl,
advocated every measure that looked Il
the upbuildng of Warrenton, and tb
prosperity of Warren people.
Mr.. Pleasant Kee, of Kicnmont
county, inform Us that Mr.. Harry Tildel
made sale recently of what is known as tn
Monroe mine, located in the vicinity 0
Tyra, in the upper edge Of Moore county
to an English company for S265, 900. TIL
mine is said to be very rich.- Troy Nidette
Maj W. W. Rollins, of Marshall n
c., has 100 acres in tobacco this year, an
tn Major claims that the crop will brn
him $50, 900. Major Rollins is the large>
tobacco grower in the world, and his GRO
this year is somewhat under the average
At the low prices last year we understan
> his crop realized $40, 600. southern TC
bacco journal.
80 The fish commissioners held the
+ third meeting at Nags Head on Aug. 27tl
: to hear protests to the designation of pus
g lie oyster grounds of Dare county. \
protests were filed. The public grounC
r were, therefore, declared in accordanc
with law and will be open for entry on II
d 18th of October. There are sixty pul